Wheel-tire bolter.



M. K. BARRON.

WHEEL TIRE BOLTER. Arrmonron FILED $31 114, 1910. 1,028,662, Patented June 4,1912.

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WHEEL-TIRE BOLTER.

' Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed September 14, 1910. Serial No.

Patented June 4, 1912 582,069.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MILES K. BARRON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cofleyville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Kansas, have-invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wheel- Tire Bolters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wheel tire bolters and has for its object the provision ofa device of this character which can be operated and controlled by a single person and which embodies the desirable features of simplicity, strength, durability and cheapness of construction.

With thisgeneral object in view the invention consists in certain novel and pe culiar features of construction and organization as hereinafter described and claimed;

and in order that it may be fully understood reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1, is a plan view of a wheel tire bolter embodying my invention, arranged in operative relation to a fragment of a wheel.

Fig. 2, is a view showing the device in side elevation and the mount or support therefor, and the wheel in vertical section. Fig. 3, is a front view. Fig. 4, is an enlarged vertical section of a part of the device. Fig. 5, isa detail perspective view of the mount for the device.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, 1 indicates a base plate equipped with upwardly projecting bearing arms 2 and 3, and journaled in said arms is a shaft 4, having a handle 5, by which it may be turned. Secured on the shaft between the bearing arms 3 is a cog wheel 6, meshing with a similar wheel 7 arranged to slide upon and rotate with a shaft 8 journaled in said bearings arms, the wheel 7 having a key 9 fitting slidingly in the longitudinal groove 10, in shaft 8. The rear end of shaft 8 is diametrically reduced to form a rearwardly-disposed shoulder 11, and forward of bearing 2 the said shaft terminates in a hollow'head '12 of rectangular form in cross section and provided withan opening 13, for a purpose which hereinafter appears,

and secured on said shaft is a collar 14 to:

shall under the pressure of spring'15, bear against the rear end of they lever 17, and hold its'front end yieldingly elevated. Pivoted to the front end of the lever 17 is a pull rod 19 pivoted at its lower end to a treadle or foot lever 20. r

Pivoted at 21 to the front end of the base plate is an angle lever 22 which terminates at its upper end in a head 23 equipped wit-h a screw driver point 24 inline with the axis of shaft 8, the said lever being bowed'laterally as shown in Fig. 3, to avoid-conflict with shaft 4, and'to dispose its lower end vertically above the lower arm of lever 17. At its lower. end the lever 22 is provided with a pair of depending ears 25 fitting snugly at opposite sides of lever '17, a bolt 26 carried by said ears extending slidingly through a longitudinal As a convenient and practicalmount for the device I preferably employ a bar27 such as a 2x4 and provide the same with a longitudinal slot 28, through which the levers 17 and 22 depend, the slot being widened at one side at' 29 for'the special accommodation of the bent portion of "lever 22, as shown more particularly in Fig. 3. At the rear end of the slot the bar is provided with upwardly projecting walls' 30, and equipped end of the bar rests upon and is adapted to be secured in any suitable manner to a suitablesupport, such as a worktable 31. When the parts are thus arranged the treadle or foot lever 20 is pivotally.connected as at 32 to the floor.

When ready to bolt a tire'upon a wheel 33, the latter is arranged-horizontally with slot 26 in lever 17. y

the hub flange resting upon the walls and the lower portion of the hub depending between said walls, the standards 2 and 3 and the parts carried thereby being disposed between adjacent spokes and the felly and tire in the horizontal plane of and between the hollow head 12 of shaft 8 and the upper end of the lever 22. The operator then places his foot upon and depresses the treadle and thereby operates said levers 17 and 22, the former sliding shaft 8 forward against the resistance of spring 15 until the hollow head fits snugly upon the nut 3 1 and the screw driver point engages the nick in the head of the bolt upon which said nut is mounted. He then while holding the parts in this position, handle 5 and thus through the gearing described, imparts rotation to the shaft 8 and causes the head thereof to screw the nut firmly home upon the tire tightly to from the foot lever to permit spring 15 to return the levers to their origlnal positions.

The wheel is then lifted and turned -until another bolt and nut is brought into the verthe actions described being repeated until tical'plane of shaft 8 and then the wheel is lowered to dispose said bolt and nut in line and said shaft with the screw driver point 8, when the manipulation described is repeated to secure said bolt firmly in place,

all of the nuts are screwed tightly upon their respective bolts,

by reversing the operations that the nuts will successively fall through the opening 18 in the side of the head 12 of shaft 8 so that the operator does not have by hand from the hollow I reserve the right to make all changes in the form, proportion, detail construction and arrangement of the parts properly falling within the spirit and I scope of the appended claims.

r I claim:

1.'A wheel tire bolter, comprising a base plate provided with a plurality of upwardly projecting bearing arms, a slidable shaft journaled in said arms and provided at its front end with a wrench head, a spring for exerting pressure in opposite directions on one of said bearing arms and the shaft to hold the latter yieldingly at one end of its slidable movement, a lever pivoted to said base plate provided with a head for engaging and holding a rotatable "object against turning movement, said head being disposed grasps and turns the bolt and thus secure the felly. The handle is then released and the pressure removed it being noticed in this connection that the tire can be removed described and as desirable and I wish it to be endwise in said arms and of reduced diameter at its rear extremity to form a rearwardly disposed'annular shoulder, and pro vided at its front extremity with a hollow head of angular form internally in cross section and provided in the bottom wall of said head with an opening, a spring exerting pressure in opposite directions upon one of said arms and sald shaft to hold the latter yieldingly at its rearmost position of sliding adjustment, an angle lever arranged to operate in a vertical plane and pivoted to the rear end of the base plate and provided at its upper ceiving the reduced end of the shaft with the shoulder of the latter engaging the slotted end of the lever at opposite sides of the slot, a second an 'le lever pivotedto the end with an upright slot rev front end of the base plate for movement in a vertical plane and provided at its upper end with a head alined with and forward of said shaft and adapted to engage and hold a rotatable object from turning and having a pin and slot connection at its opposite end with the first-named 'angle lever, a 'foot treadle connected to the said first-named le ver, and means for rotating the said shaft.

3, The combination withv a suitable support of a bar mounted thereon and projecting forwardly therefrom and provided in its projecting edge with a longitudinal .slot and provided rearward of said slot with up wardly projecting walls as a support for'a horizontally arranged wheel, a base plate mounted" on the bar with arms projecting upward between adjacent spokes of the said wheel, a longitudinally slidable shaft journaled in saidarms extending radially of the wheel between said adjacent spokes and provided forward of the foremost bearing with a hollow head susceptible'of non-rotatably receiving a nut at the inner side of the felly of the wheel,yielding means for holding said'shaft with its hollow head'rearward of said nut, a cog wheel mounted slidingly and non-rotatably on said shaft between a pair of said bearing arms, a lever pivoted to the base plate and susceptible of sliding said shaft forwardly until its head receives said nut, a second lever pivoted to said base plate and provided with a rearwardly projecting screw-driver point for engagement with the nick of the head of the bolt carrying said nut, a pin and slot consaid bearing arms and engaging the firstnection between the opposite end of the lenamed cog wheel.

Ver and the first-named lever forward of the In testimony whereof I afiix my signapivotal point of the latter, means for operture, in the presence of two witnesses.

ating said levers, a second shaft journaled MILES K. BARRON.

in said bearing arms and provided at its Witnesses: front end with a handle, and a cog wheel E. H. PEARCE, secured upon said shaft between a pair of L. E. H001).

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